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Topic: What are the dumbest lyrics ever written? |
Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 4:16 am |
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I have 2 nominations. The first is Surfin' Bird
Oh well a bird bird bird, bird is a word.
Yes a bird bird bird, bird is a word.
Bird bird bird, bird is a word.
Yes a bird bird bird, bird is a word.
Well don't you know about the bird?
Everybody knows that bird is a word.
Oh well a bird bird bird, bird is a word.
Bird bird bird, bird is a word.
My other nomination is the Name Game.
Mike Mike bo bike..................
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I'm not fat! I'm horzontally enhanced!
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David Reeves
From:
Florida
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 5:55 am
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Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, shake, shake;
Shake, your booty;
Shake, your booty.
(Repeat indefinitely)
KC and the Sunshine Band |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 6:00 am
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the lyrics to Wooly Bully
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 6:08 am
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One I can never get out of my head was called
Our Dog Is Daid...
Most pathetically hillbilly lament I have ever heered....
Regards, Paul  |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 6:31 am
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| "Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in my Tummy" is surely right up there. |
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Bob Knight
From:
Bowling Green KY
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 6:44 am
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| "Louie Louie" |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 6:58 am
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How about:
Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy-do!
or
La la la la la la la la la means 'I love you' |
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Dennis Olearchik
From:
Newtown, PA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 7:06 am
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Mike,
Not to derail your thread but imho the most "over-used" lyric is "...i love you..".
And after hearing that lyric used in a gajillion songs over the past 40+ yrs, I sometimes cringe even when I hear it in a song I like. So for me, it may have become THE dumbest "lyric" of all.
But "..bird, bird, bird, bird is a word" is a real close runner up ;-)
p.s. Jim, I don't get it, what's dumb about "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy-do!"?[This message was edited by Dennis Olearchik on 19 April 2003 at 08:08 AM.] [This message was edited by Dennis Olearchik on 19 April 2003 at 08:11 AM.] [This message was edited by Dennis Olearchik on 19 April 2003 at 08:12 AM.] |
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John LeMaster
From:
North Florida
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 8:57 am
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My nomination (ala John "Bowser" Baughman of the oldies group Sha-Na-Na)
Ba-ba-ba-ba, Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba,
Dangdy-Dang-Dang
Dingdy-Dong-Ding
Blue Moon
Blue, blue, blue, blue moon,
Dip-dip-dip-dip-dip
Blue, blue, blue, blue moon,
Dip-dip-dip-dip-dip
Blue, blue, blue, blue moon,
Dip-dip-dip-dip-dip
Ba-ba-ba-ba (well, you get the idea)
The original recording was by another group. Possibly the Marcels?
John L. |
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Frank Estes
From:
Huntsville, AL
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 9:12 am
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"Brand New Key"
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You've got a brand new key.
I just wish we'd get together and try them out you see.
I've been lookin around the world,
You've got something for me.
Oh, I've got a brand new pair of roller skates you've got a brand new key.
I ride my bike, I roller skate don't drive no car. Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far, for someone who don't drive, well I've been all around the world...
(Had not no heard this song by Melanie in years. I remember when it came it out because it was around the time that Disney World was opened. I will actually sing a few bars of this song when I am trying to get a laugh...) |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 9:12 am
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I hear people saying we don't need this war
I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground?
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start preaching
Let me ask you this my friend
Have you forgotten how it felt that day
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away?
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside
Going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it every day
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right
Have you forgotten how it felt that day
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away?
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside
Going through a living hell
And we vowed to get the ones behind Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yes, some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten? |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 9:58 am
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I think "You were the wind beneath my wings" has got to be in there somewhere.
Crimson and Clover.
That Don't Impress Me Much.
"I love you" has got to be the worst tag, except maybe in the Partridge Family song, where it is at least corrected to read "I think....".
Achey Breakey.
Though the sentiment is TOTALLY the best of, I think the Stretch for Rhyming "Bin Laden" was kind of pathetic. I liked the Charlie Daniels effort myself..
( I know.. "YOU come up with something then Eric...")
Also in that vein, Lee Greenwood's Proud to be an American.. "Where *at least(?)* I know I'm free." Jeezus! What is THAT? I'm going to have to consult my Bill Hankey Slanted Dictionary of Perilously Presumptious Predicates and Natty Nominatives (tm).
Egg Sucking Dog.
More to come..
EJL
Actally sometimes the "worst" can vie for my adulation with the Best.
Here's one of "my faves"
Tom Waits
Small Change (1976)
The Piano has been Drinking (Not Me)
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fence post
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me[This message was edited by Eric West on 19 April 2003 at 04:30 PM.] |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 10:19 am
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I'm with 'Earnest' on this one, 'though Toby Keith's recent 'call to war' runs it a close second...
RR |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 10:53 am
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Mattie tol' Hattie, 'bout a thang she saw.
Had two big eyes, and a wooly jaw...Wooly Bullyyyy, Wooly Bully.
Oh dat Wooly, oh dat Wooly, Wooly Bully.
Being in a dozen different rock bands in the '60s, I wish I had a buck for every time I played that one!
'Course, then there's...Baa Baa Baa, Baa Baa Barann, Baa Baa Baa, Baa Baa Barann..."
(I think Mel Tillis wrote that one!)  [This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 19 April 2003 at 12:05 PM.] |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 10:56 am
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I/m with Mike on this one..
Surfin Bird.It's my first choice..
At least the other songs actually have words ...
T |
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Barbara Hennerman
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:06 am
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:07 am
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Thanks Earnest. I'm with you.
That pandering, inane piece of stupidity actually woke me up in the middle of the night this week, and made me so angry I couldn't get back to sleep.
-John
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:38 am
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| Well, I'm not touching Ernest's nomination, which has got to be one of Ernest's longest posts. So before this goes around the political bend and b0b closes it, I'm gonna try to get it back on track. I don't think the doowop nominations are fair. That stuff is clever in its own way for its own purposes - same for The Name Game. But the original entry of Surfin' Bird does seem to be in a dumbness class all its own, with Shake Your Booty, Wooly Bully and Louie Louie close behind. I've tried in vain to top those. The only thing that keeps coming into my mind is "Crimson and clover, over and over." And now I have to go listen to something, anything, to get that out of my head. Thanks, guys. [This message was edited by David Doggett on 19 April 2003 at 12:40 PM.] |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:45 am
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She thinks my tractor's sexy. Now there's a line with real meaning.  |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:48 am
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"When I was a little bitty baby
Momma would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home..."
Eric, don't be too hard on ol' Greenwood. Every time therre's a national crisis, he gets off the Moose lodge circuit. |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:49 am
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How about:
They'll buy a Winnebago
Set out to see America
Do a lot of catching up
A little at a time
From Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Wasn't the guy a truckdriver? Where the heck did he drive? And who would retire and go back to the same thing?
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 11:51 am
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| Only if you are a "Motorphile" Frank. I found this to be uplifing (the food in my stomach, anyway) |
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Eric Myers
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 2:30 pm
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"Holding her, and loving you"
i crack up everytime I hear this just thinking of the sorry saps that actually relate to it and think it is touching- no offense to sorry saps in general, =) -maybe its because I think its such a disgusting sentiment and my mirth is my way of compensating...........hmmmmm[This message was edited by Eric Myers on 19 April 2003 at 03:39 PM.] |
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Leroy Riggs
From:
Looney Tunes, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 3:34 pm
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 All of the above wins. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 19 Apr 2003 4:27 pm
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Stephen Gambrell is on the right song, but the wrong lyric. He should have chosen "it was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana..."
Last time I drove it, Texarkana was 36 miles from Louisiana.
Yeah, I know... Mr. Picky-Picky.
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Texas Steel Guitar Association
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